from carol: “We couldn’t resist. Even though knitting isn’t always too fascinating to watch on television, this cute and easy sweater that knitter Lynne Foster designed was too tempting not to feature it on the show. The sweater is cute enough that any knitter who knows a young baby would be tempted to make one of these, and it is also so easy that it makes a perfect project for a first-time knitter to try. The trickiest part is sewing it together.

You will knit five rectangles--two for the front panels, two for the sleeves, and one for the back…although the back may turn out to look more like a square.

I used a fine two-ply yarn for one sweater, a soft and fluffy baby yarn called Snowflake for another, and a slightly lumpy type of yarn for a third, although this also was of a two- ply weight. All baby sweaters were knit on the same size (#9) needles, but the finished size of the rectangles varied slightly. Using a two-ply yarn with size #9 needles will result in a jacket approximately 9 inches wide by 10 inches long.

Either the garter stitch (k all rows) or the stockinette stitch (k one row, p one row) can be used. I used the garter stitch on all of my sweaters. Lynne used the stockinette stitch.”